North east ohio 2018

[CrossBroMaple]

I think here on the lake we didn't get the march snow or rain, which led to a dry woods. Been a nice change when we gathered but didn't get the trees what they needed. I don't like that my production totals have trended down the last 3 years with no change in tap count.

[johnallin]

John whats your finished gallon per tap rate right now? most people not on vacuum seem to be around .15-.25 per tap.

I'm lower than that, closer to .12. Chalk it up to my low sugar at 1.6 average.

[heus]

27 degrees all night, high of 52 today and sunny. If it doesn't run today in my woods I would say that its all over for me.

[WoodButcher]

totally agree!

[heus]

I'm lower than that, closer to .12. Chalk it up to my low sugar at 1.6 average.

John on most days I would be happy with 1.6 sugar. Mine is usually 1-1.4

[johnallin]

I've only seen 2% once over here and that was collecting from 1/2 frozen bags. Makes for long boils and lots of wood/gallon. Going out to cut more this morning to boil off what I brought in from this week. 165 gallons in the tank now...
You're right, it should run today.

[johnallin]

Boil #14 underway as I type. Full tank at 165 and still have 100+ in the woods. Had to cut wood this morning with our son. This is a fun year.

[heus]

Worst year ever for me. Shutting it down tomorrow I think. 200 gallons of sap today which is pathetic. I am seriously thinking about moving away from cv spouts. I am almost certain that the majority of them plug up with slime and cease to function well before the runs should end. Thinking about going to the green zap bac spouts next year. If they dont do as promised at least they wont plug up the taphole entirely.

[Kh7722]

Got about a 1000 gal here today and still coming in this evening, this has been an awesome year for us, great flavor syrup and lots of volume, just wish the sugar content was higher, its making all dark now and probably be over real soon, for how weird the weather was this year turned out to be great!

[johnallin]

Just finished up for today. Ended up with 2 1/4 gallons off 155 gal boiled off. Not bad for over here. Looks like Kevin is hitting it out of the park today. I’m having a good year over here and this next week still shows some decent temp swings.
Heus, that’s crummy that you’re not getting sap. Just as soon as I run out of wood; it starts up again over here. Now that’s getting old, but an easy fix.